Getting Started with Horde: A Project Plan

Building and maintaining a production-ready Horde deployment can be a daunting task. This guide outlines the typical work involved in creating your own deployment.

Bronze

Core infrastructure and configuration required for a basic Horde deployment

Silver

Advanced optimization, monitoring, and reliability features for professional teams

Gold

Advanced automation, security, and scalability features for large organizations

Bronze

□ Configure Horde streams / templates, schedules, triggers
□ Set up Horde Dashboard and projects
□ Configure UnrealGameSync builds, updates, Horde server connection
□ Stand up Redis and Mongo servers
□ Configure Windows Horde agents base image
□ Configure Horde agent pools and fleet managers
□ Set up agent auto-scaling within cloud provider for Horde agents
□ Configure networking between agents and server
□ Set up authentication and configure SAML or OIDC integration to your IdP
□ Configure Horde artifact storage
□ Set up mac agent images (If shipping on mac or iOS)
□ Secure connection between between office/remote users and Horde server
□ Write documentation for setting up UGS, running preflights and other SOPs

Ongoing Maintenance

□ Regular and urgent security updates for Horde server and Horde agents
□ Regular and urgent security updates for Redis,Mongo, and other supporting services
□ Merge new versions of Unreal into Horde deployment. Apply Horde spot bugfixes as needed.

Silver

□ Create slack app and configure Horde to use it
□ Set up shared Zen server for DDC and configure cook agents to use it
□ Windows agent images to support GPUs for automated testing
□ Set up authorization and ACLs for end-users
□ Configure AutoSDK support for each target platform
□ Profile and optimize compile agent hardware (disk, CPU, memory) and software (OS configuration)
□ Profile and optimize cook agent hardware (disk, CPU, memory) and software (OS configuration)
□ Alerting and monitoring for each service: Horde server, agents, authentication, databases, etc
□ Profile and optimize networking between Horde agents, Horde coordinator, zen server
□ Configure and profile, optimize multiprocess cook for CI
□ Configure Horde Build Health monitoring and issue creation
□ Set up custom artifact types and retention policies for each. Plumb into BuildGraph.
□ Automated backups for Redis, Mongo, and Horde artifacts
□ Configure secrets storage and plumb into Horde
□ Set up load balancers to support zero-downtime deploys
□ Profile and optimize UBA agent hardware (disk, CPU, memory) and software (OS configuration)
□ Implement Unreal Build Accelerator support for development team and CI builds
□ Implement and optimize autoscaling for UBA agents

Gold

□ Profile and optimize Zen server hardware (disk, CPU, memory) and software (OS configuration)
□ Create images for Unreal Build Accelerator using Wine
□ Optimize Unreal Build Accelerator agent launch times
□ Automated CI/CD pipeline for Horde coordinator itself
□ Automated CI/CD pipeline for Agent Images
□ Automated CI/CD pipeline for UBA agent images
□ Automated deployment for Redis and Mongo servers
□ Profile and optimize different storage hardware and networking to it
□ Cost and usage reporting for teams to understand expenses
□ Configure UBA to handle remote shader compilation
□ Set up automated monitoring, alerting, and restarting for Agent hangs/stalls